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DREISER by W. A. Swanberg. 614 pages. Scribner...
Among the 30 students selected for the Venezuelan project are Nathan C. Foote '63, Kenneth G. Swanberg '63, Gerard A. P. Prunier '66, and David Snyder. Their term of service is 18 months...
...Columbia University keeps plugging, it may soon make the Pulitzer Prizes more valuable in the losing than the winning. Last year, after the Pulitzer Advisory Board unanimously chose W. A. Swanberg's Citizen Hearst for the $500 biography award, Columbia's trustees vetoed the book-and sales spurted. Last week, after a two-man screening jury recommended Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the drama award, the Advisory Board decided to omit the prize. But with a New York Drama Critics Award and five Tonys (Broadway's Oscars) already...
...advisory board took defeat gracefully. With a nice impartiality, Columbia's President Grayson Kirk voted for the Swanberg book in his capacity as an advisory board member, then voted against it as a trustee. "I don't see why the trustees should be a rubber stamp," said Board Member-and Atlanta Constitution Publisher-Ralph McGill...
Maybe. But no such suggestion came from Loser Swanberg, or from his publisher. Both watched with satisfaction as sales of Citizen Hearst spurted, helped along by deliberately ambiguous ads: "We are delighted to hear that the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board decided that this biography was the best published last year...